A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

H3+, known as "the molecule that made the universe," plays a crucial role in interstellar chemistry and the birth of stars.

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

Explore the astonishing findings from the Webb Telescope on the restless black hole Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way's center.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...